Security Levels
![Admrial Thad Allen speaks to the personnel of Air Station Clearwater during an All-Hands in 2007.](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/eot2008/20080917154334im_/http://uscg.mil/history/img/Allen2007sm.jpg)
Commandants of the U.S. Coast Guard
& Chiefs of the Revenue Marine
Division
Chiefs of the Revenue Marine Bureau
(The Chiefs exercised centralized control over the
Revenue Marine Bureau.)
- 1843-1848 Captain Alexander V. Fraser, USRM
- 1848-1849 Captain Richard Evans, USRM
In 1849 the Revenue Marine Bureau was
dissolved, and the Revenue Marine fell under the control the Commissioner of
Customs until the Revenue Marine Bureau was again established in 1869.
- 1869-1871 N. Broughton Devereux
- 1871-1878 Sumner I. Kimball
- 1878-1885 Ezra Clark
- 1885-1889 Peter Bonnett
Commandants [click on the name for a
biography and photograph]
- 1905-1911 Captain
Worth G. Ross, USRCS, Captain-Commandant (the office of
Captain-Commandant was first created in 1908 and Ross therefore is the
"first" officer to hold that office and the title of
"Captain-Commandant.")
- 1919-1924
Rear Admiral William F. Reynolds, first Captain- and later Rear
Admiral-Commandant. Re-appointed Commandant on 12 January 1923
with rank of Rear Admiral effective 2 October 1923. He was the
first officer to attain this rank.
- 1936-1946 Admiral
Russell R. Waesche. Appointed Commandant as Rear Admiral. Appointed
Full Admiral 4 April 1945. First officer to attain ranks of Vice Admiral
and Admiral.
- 1954-1962 Admiral
Alfred C. Richmond. Appointed Commandant as Vice Admiral; appointed
Admiral 1 June 1960 by act of 14 May 1960. Public Law 86-474, under
which all Coast Guard Commandants thereafter automatically became
Admirals.